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Homemade Orange Juice

A beverage made by blending peeled oranges with sugar and water, then straining and serving cold.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Homemade Orange Juice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the oranges

  1. Remove the peel and skin from the oranges with a knife.

  2. Slice the orange in half with a tiny knife and remove all seeds.

  3. Cut the orange into smaller pieces and place them in the blender.

Blend and strain

  1. Add 1 tablespoon of sugar and either ice or water to the blender.

  2. Pulse the blender several times until very smooth.

  3. Strain the mixture.

Serve

  1. Pour the filtered orange juice into a glass cup. Serve cold.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

111Calories
1 gProtein
0 gFat
28 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 3 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Orange + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Orange and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Oranges
Provide the main flavour and most of the juice in the drink.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to balance the oranges' natural acidity.

The step that matters

Straining the mixture. Blending breaks up the pulp and seed fragments, so straining removes the solids that would otherwise leave the juice gritty or cloudy. Skipping it or straining too little leaves a textured drink.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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